Abstract
Adult education plays a major role in social change. It is now widely admitted that growth will not reduce poverty unless poor people are able to actively participate in it. Such participation can become effective to a large extent through adult education. Indeed, the African, and of course, Nigerian population will need some kind of formal and non-formal education and training to be able to benefit from basic health care, including sexual and reproductive health services, the development of new medicines, and, thus, be in a position to free itself from diseases that devastate poor people, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other parasites. Adult education would also be needed to enable the poor Nigerians to really take advantage of programs aimed at protecting orphans and vulnerable children or drastically reducing the number of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation. When challenges facing adult education are properly tackled, the nation will record progress in its practice of adult education making it possible for its aims and objectives to be realized. Removing the obstacles to the practice of adult education enhances progress in the lives of individuals and the nation by helping individuals within the nation to understand himself and his fellowmen thus, making him/her an asset to the nation. This paper therefore recommends adequate funding and value change reorientation on societal attitude toward Adult Education programmes in Nigeria.
Keywords: Problems, Prospect and Adult Education Programmes.